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Up To a Quarter of California Smog Comes From China
wabrandsma writes "What goes around comes around – quite literally in the case of smog. The US has outsourced many of its production lines to China and, in return, global winds are exporting the Chinese factories' pollution right back to the U.S. From the article: '...the team combined their emissions data with atmospheric models that predict how winds shuttle particles around. These winds push Chinese smog over the Pacific and dump it on the western US, from Seattle to southern California. The modelling revealed that on any given day in 2006, goods made in China for the US market accounted for up to a quarter of the sulphate smog over the western U.S..'"
Ah, a snow mexican who doesn't understand how standing works! You may have been taught that 'standing' or 'the moral high ground' or similar such concepts are things that you gain through "honesty" or "consistency" or "ethical standards" or suchlike bullshit. This is nonsense. You get 'standing' by being The Good Guys, which America is, always has been, and always will be.
Really quite simple, no?
First:
All libertarian spells out is ignorance. Actual libertarianism is truly incompatible with any modern society. People don't seem to understand that an excess of liberty is just as bad as a lack of liberty, and that truth lands somewhere in the middle away from libertarians and republicans who call themselves libertarians, and away from the entire political spectrum. The truth lies in facts, not political viewpoints.
That said, not only is every country guilty of allowing too much pollution in different ways, but nobody wants to try to crack down on china due to their own problems being exposed. Even at a time where global warming is explicitly acknowledged as a manmade effect, countries are still not even cracking down on their own populace to reduce emissions - and it's not a single country that would fix the problem, either - including China and the US.
Hopefully this highlights that global pollution requires global action, not "China's polluting California!" but "why do both countries not have more significant actions being taken to reduce emissions"?